[PLUG] NAS System suggestions

[Michael Dexter]

On 6/22/16 9:52 AM, Vedanta Teacher wrote:
> This may or may not help... but ixsystems sells a FreeNAS Mimi
> with 4 bays for $999 @ https://www.ixsystems.com/freenas-mini/
> I've never used the FreeNAS OS myself .

Well, some of us have. In fact, I have been doing 3+ years of FreeNAS 
support. Love or hate FreeNAS, it's the OpenZFS you want:

https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/openzfs-vs-the-competition/

Nothing comes close, and I base that statement on extensive research, 
though I don't fully know what EMC does under the hood because it's 
proprietary. No, not Btrfs. They borked the volume manager, have space 
accounting issues and still think in terms of say, the fstab and fsck. 
My favorite: Forget to tell Btrfs your data is compressed etc. and it 
appears corrupt, until you remember you have to do that kind of thing 
manually. XFS? Search for "XFS null files". They found ways to 
(repeatedly) zero-out data in case of a panic, even with READ-ONLY 
MOUNTS! How did they pull that off?

Anyway, watch for FreeNAS 10 and while you'll probably say the $999 plus 
disks Mini is expensive, that's a solid piece of hardware for protecting 
your data. ECC RAM, etc.

Michael